At the heart of America's foreclosure crisis, Occupy Detroit and other community groups are using direct action to buy time for families fighting to stay in their homes. A favorite tactic is to fill or block the dumpsters city regulations require ...

When artist Olga Koumoundouros noticed a foreclosed and abandoned home in her Los Angeles neighborhood, a thought occurred to her: Why not paint it? So she turned the exterior gold to comment on the buying and selling of the American Dream, and in...

The mayor of one of France's poorest towns is on hunger strike and camped in a tent outside the Paris legislature in a bid to win increased funding for Sevran and other desperate urban areas. Stephane Gatignon says he urgently needs $6.4 million t...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spawned a massive relief effort for people in parts of New York City hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. Occupy Sandy volunteers say the aid effort is following the principles of mutual aid and direct action that h...

Tens of thousands were expected but only hundreds showed up this week to mark one year since Occupy Wall Street began its protests in New York. Is the movement over or has it simply evolved into a new form of grassroots participatory democracy? Gu...

Occupy Wall Street protesters are converging in the financial district in Manhattan to mark the first anniversary of the movement's beginning. Similar protests are taking place in dozens of cities today. On Sept. 17, 2011, thousands of people answ...

You may have thought the Occupy movement's protest encampments were all over, but Hong Kong's still lives... for now. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.

Extreme police tactics are not a new phenomenon in the United States. But in the age of social media, police violence, such as the shooting of unarmed people, the use of pepper spray and taser guns are being documented for the world to see. The ...

A protester in Israel who performed an act of public self-immolation exactly one week ago has died. Moshe Silman had been part of the country's social protest movement, which launched last summer as high living costs create deep economic uncertai...

The Occupy movement's protests in the US have drawn the attention of journalists from across the global, but some correspondents covering the demonstrations have found themselves behind bars for simply doing their jobs. We speak to one of those in...